Together at last: a wedding 50 years in the making

Jeanne Gustavson and Steve Watts at home in Cedar Mill, a suburb of Portland, Oregon. Together again after four decades apart, some things are different now, “Our favorite time is napping together,” she says. But their love hasn’t waned. | Jaime Valdez / Sun-Times

They first dated 50 years ago.

But it was only late last year that Steve Watts got up the nerve to pop the question to Jeanne Gustavson.